Post #1822807
2026-03-16 04:22 UTC
@ekuber I still feel like a frustratingly large fraction of the complaints I hear about Unicode from us English-wielders come down to
"well I don't need very much complexity to move my 26 letters around so why should they"
as opposed to, like, the political and linguistic/accessibility implications of Han unification
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@SnoopJ@hachyderm.io 2026-03-16 15:01
@cliffle @ekuber @bitprophet the one that really brings my piss to a boil is the curiously-persistent accusation that the Unicode codespace is being "filled up" with frivolous things (emoji is a favored punching bag for this particular set of joyless critics) It takes about 30 seconds to look up the number of assigned codepoints and compute that as of 17.0.0, the filled fraction of Unicode after more than 30 years is… 159,801 / 0x10FFFF = 14.3% but then, these sorts of criticisms NEVER come from a place of caring about text encoding, there are other motives at work.